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1 " Pan, I said. "Do you know who can help?"He shook his head. "I will," I said. "What can you do?" he asked."I don't know yet. This is new to me. "
― Kathleen Grissom , Glory Over Everything: Beyond The Kitchen House
2 " There is no shame in who I am,” he said. “There is only shame in how I came to be, and that is not my burden to carry. "
3 " We all carry burdens from our past, but it is not for others to exploit them. "
4 " I always found it unusual that family is most often defined as those who share the same blood. Doesn’t every family begin with partners who don’t share the same DNA? "
5 " I had loved her as a mother, and though she had put forth her best effort to love me as a son, a difference existed after she learned the truth from Delia. Yet I did not hold her responsible; how could I blame her for an inability to love the part of me that I, too, loathed? "